Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 2 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 3 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 4 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 5 | and I ca n't remember what , the last time we were seeing each other it |
| 6 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 7 | The conclusions were challenged by Mr Joe Rich , chairman of the British Dental Association 's General Dental Services Committee , who said it was ‘ probably true ’ that more teeth were being extracted because dentists were seeing more patients . |
| 8 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 9 | BY last night two teachers were outstripping all others in the race to be Teacher of the Year . |
| 10 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 11 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 12 | But he said figures showed that international traffickers were targeting this country as never before , and ‘ it 's simply a question of time ’ before that fed through to the streets . |
| 13 | The , in other words , your emotions were reflecting these kinds of calculations . |
| 14 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 15 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 16 | The lads were nudging each other and pointing at me . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt people were nudging each other and pointing at me and saying , ‘ Him , the juvenile lead ? ’ |
| 18 | Is that why you , you and Lorna were nudging each other ? |
| 19 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 20 | They were helping each other . |
| 21 | But a closer look at the video recording showed that both men were helping each other to drive . |
| 22 | Then together she and Peter were helping each other from the room , Marc 's compassionless black stare following them out . |
| 23 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 24 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 25 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 26 | Before long , both sides were accusing each other of breaches of the agreement , and in the autumn of 1931 , while Gandhi was in London for the second , inconclusive , Round Table conference , civil disobedience and political violence broke out again . |
| 27 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 28 | So she crammed six big fellers into her front room , sat them down with rum and blankets , and the whole bunch snuggled up like they were queueing all night to buy tickets for the Test Match . |
| 29 | While Lebanon 's Christians were demanding more territory , Protestants in the north of Ireland were safeguarding their future statelet within the United Kingdom by accepting less than they might have claimed . |
| 30 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |